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Make life easier – schedule household chores fairly with Chore Buster

May 4, 2007 by Tricia

Tired of being the person who does the majority of household chores? Wish the kids would either actually do their chores or stop fighting over them? Why not try this great new free site Chore Buster. This site was created in order to help you generate chore schedules that will be doled out fairly to all the members of your household.

How cool is that?

Whether you live alone and just want to make sure that you remember to clean your stove once a month, turn your mattress or wash the floors twice a week; or live in a household with kids of different ages who should be able to do some chores I’m sure you’ll find that Chore Buster is just what you’ve always wanted, even if you didn’t know that you did.

Using Chore Buster you can easily create a free account, add the members of your family who are able to do chores and assign tasks that should be done, daily, weekly or monthly. Chore Buster then automatically schedules the tasks according to the persons ability or availability and rotates them through the list of household members so that they are distributed fairly. So if your daughter washes the dishes tomorrow evening, your son might get the chore the next night and so on.

I think this is great. I didn’t create a chore list for my husband and I because we are actually pretty good about household chores. We both do just about everything. I think the only chores we defer to the other are 1. garbage – he’s usually the one to take it out, but I’ll often gather it up, and 2. He doesn’t like cleaning the bathrooms and doesn’t do the best job when he does do it so I end up doing it, but otherwise we’re pretty fair in this house. I may however still sign up and assign chores – at least it would help me remember to do the chores that only get done once in a while.

I did however go through the hand Chore Buster Demo to see what it was all about so that I could tell you all about it. First of course you should register for an account. Once you’re ready to get started begin by adding the members of your household who can do chores. Once you are done adding your family members you can edit each persons listing and assign a task level of normal, or only 75%, 50%, or 25% of the regular household chores. Like this:

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Once you’ve finished adding and editing the members of your home you can move on to list all the chores that regularly need to be done around the home. Chore Buster has a handy already created list of chores that would need to be done in most homes that you can import into your account to save on your typing. Once you have listed all of the chores you can set about editing each one:

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As you can see you can choose to not assign certain chores to particular people, decide how often it should be assigned, and give it a skill level.

Once you are done adding all the members of the household, editing each person, adding chores and editing them as well, make sure that you have checked that at least one member of the household is sent the list of chores weekly or even daily.

I can see this taking a while to set up properly, especially if there are several people in a home with varying skill levels, but think about it – how much time do you spend assigning chores now, or being frustrated when the kids start fighting over chores. Once you’ve spent the time to set this up you can pretty much forget about it. You’ll get a regular email with a new list of chore assignments and the tasks will be rotated through the members of the household so everything will be distributed fairly. No more fighting! No more wasted time assigning tasks!

What do you think? Are you going to give it a try?





Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Services Tagged With: assign chores, Chore Buster, chores, Family, fighting over chores, home, household, household members, regularly schedule chores, schedule chores

The lengths people go to …

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

I didn’t realize that people took me so seriously about some of my blogrolls. Lately I’ve had a string of people wanting to get on my “I am Canadian” blogroll and they’ve been writing me to me with proof of just how Canadian they really are. LOL

Really I’m not that stringent with the rules. I can often tell by how the person writes or some of the cities or cultural references that they make on their sites that they really are Canadian. I mean we are a unique culture even if we do sometimes struggle with the onslaught of American culture that comes our way 24 hours a day.

We spell words differently. That’s right this site is not full of spelling mistakes like some people probably think. We do spell many of our words the British way, after all we are still part of the Commonwealth, even if we’ve formally declared our independence. So when I slip and spell words like honour, behaviour, neighbourhood, cheque, barbecue, favour, jewelery and so on they are not spelling mistakes.

We have phrases that are particularly Canadian, and passions that go unmatched against our American counterparts. Hockey and beer come to mind.

There are also foods that are unique to Canadian culture such as Beaver tails, peameal bacon (Americans call it Canadian bacon), Tourtiere – a fantastic french meat pie, Poutine, Smarties- ours are chocolate rather than sour candies and so on.

One of the latest people to join the I am Canadian Blogroll sent in her proof of her Canadianesse by writing a post about being Canadian. It’s fantastic. I didn’t get too far into her post before I was adding her to the blogroll. Cori’s a great read too so I’m happy to add her to the list.

I just love it when people get creative!

images.jpg Speaking of something truly Canadian, definitely cultural icons, and somewhat creative … Bob and Doug Mackenzie are coming back!

On May 24th, which is our Victoria day long weekend to celebrate the former Queen of England’s birthday, and traditionally known as the “May 24” when Canadians tend to go camping, party and drink cases of beer – all containing 24 bottles or cans of course – a one hour tribute to Bob and Doug Mackenzie will be aired on CBC.

It’s really poor planning on the Canadian Broadcasting Companies part because as I just said this is the weekend that Canadians go to the cottage or go camping and most often do not have access to TV.

So if you do have plans that weekend set your VCR’s, DVR’s or TIVO to tape the show for you. I’m certain it will be a good one.

One final peek at our Canadian icons Bob and Doug MacKenzie

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BTW I know that the infamous Ted Murphy is a fan of Bob and Doug – hope he’s taking note of this too.

My husband got all excited about this too and is working on a post that will hopefully contain a video. I’ll link to his post when he’s done. He needs a beer for inspiration, he’ll be done soon. It’s done – check out his view of Bob and Doug.

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Television Tagged With: blog, Blogroll, blogs, canadian, Culture, husband, jewellery, Join, Party, program, Video, weekend, work, write, Writing

Become an entrepreneur and market the worlds 1st healthy coffee

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

I’m certain that a number of you who read my blog regularly are coffee lovers. I’ll even go so far as to bet that many of you start your day with a cup of Java too.

Unfortunately we keep hearing that too much coffee isn’t good for you. Well, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to drink what is being claimed as the worlds 1st Healthy Coffee? That’s right, there is now a coffee that’s actually better for you than regular coffee.

This new coffee, being marketed by Shane Morand, is non acidic, has no added chemicals, and contains less than half the caffeine of regular coffee. This coffee also has over 200 health enhancing nutrients which includes over 150 all natural and organic anti-oxidants.

People who drink this coffee claim that they feel their energy increase, and feel less tired overall.

What’s more, Shane is now opening up his enterprise and taking on affiliates. He’s been marketing this new blend of coffee for over 37 months just by word of mouth alone and he’s already built this into a multi-million dollar enterprise. He’s looking for serious individuals who’d like to get involved in this opportunity. He says that he can help those interested build a steady stream of monthly residual income.

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity go to the page that I’ve linked to above and fill out the form. Shane Morand will contact you and talk to you about this new coffee. You can also listen to to a 24 hour recording by calling the number at the bottom of the left text area on the page too.

It can’t hurt to learn more about it.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Make Money, Sales and Marketing Tagged With: affiliate, Entrepreneur, healthy coffee, make residual income, market healthy coffee

Turning the TV off

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

Ok that does it. Now they have the contestants on stage, behind small swinging doors peeing in front of the audience in order to answer questions on that game show Distraction that I just mentioned in an earlier post.

I think it’s time to turn the TV off and either go to bed or visit the forums that I usually read at night.

That show is just sickening. I’m glad it was canceled. Now if they’d only stop showing it on the Comedy channel I’d be happy.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Recreation, Television Tagged With: disgusting show, Distraction, peeing on stage, sickening, UK game show

Clearing the clutter

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

I keep thinking about work more and more. I really miss working in the ER. I still have no idea if or when I might be going back. I want to – at least on a part time basis if I can’t handle full time anymore, but I don’t know if that will happen or not.

I guess I’ve been thinking about work because it’s Spring time and I’ve been doing a lot of spring cleaning. My closet is full of nursing uniforms and I don’t know what to do with them. They’re taking up a lot of space. I think I might just fold them up and store them away in one of those clothes storage boxes.

I’m just so sick of this Crohn’s disease that it’s not funny. I know it won’t go away, but of course I can wish that all I want can’t I? If it would at least settle down and allow me to get some of my life back I’d appreciate it.

Anyone else spring cleaning these days and finding things you should put away or get rid of?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nursing Tagged With: clutter, crohns, ER, going back to work, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, nursing uniforms, pain, part time, sick, Spring cleaning, work

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